Q: Mavericks Finder - how default to "double click opens new window"?

Wizard_Magic_Spell wrote:

 

. Not only that,but let's say we have the Applications folder open,and then go to the menu bar (and I used to do this) and click on 'Go' and select another folder,even this way does not bring up the new folder of my choice.

Hi Wizard....when I do this, it does bring up a new and separate window of my choice....

Hollanda dear...

Heres what I get you are saying….

1. un-check ’Open folder in tabs….”

2.If you do command option t, it will hide the sidebar and the tool bar at top, then when you dbl clk on a folder, it opens the folder in a new window. yes.

(however pulling the window wider to the left hiding the sidebar, still leaves the top tool bar etc and then it does not work, this trick)

BUT….

the new folder window that is opened is formatted now again w the sidebar and tool bar at top, and then dbl clicking on a folder in that kind of window, does not allow a new separate window to open. so it is only a “1 level” of separage-window-opening that way, right?

so I dont really get why we are saying it works. It only works if you cmd option t all your windows one by one….right, so that any window you open would than be configured w no sidebar and not tool bar thus allow dbl clking to open separte windows?

OR....maybe there is a way one can one make it a default that the windows all have the 'no sidebar and no tool bar' style, like you could in Snow Leopard?

In Snow Leopard, once you made 1 window like that, all the subsequent windows would be like that.

What do you think?

The whole tab thing, like WH is saying, is quite another issue.

Personally, when i did a search on google for this topic of tabs it brought me to this discussion. I guess I should have looked at the title of the discussion.

IvancitoOCAMPO wrote:

 

It does not work. For every new window you will have to manually hide the sidebar and menubar.

right...that is what I just said in about 20x more workds...lol....

Does anyone know of a way to restore the traditional Finder behavior in Mavericks? 

A work around is to hold down the "command" key when opening a folder.  This will open that folder's contents into a new (different) window like previous OSX did.

Wait....

Hollanda.....

If you do command option t, it will hide the sidebar and the tool bar at top, then when you dbl clk on a folder, it opens the folder in a new window. yes.

but

the new folder window tht is opened is formated now again w the sidebar and tool bar at top, and then dbl clicking on a folder in that kind of window, does not allow a new separtae window to open. so it is only a 1 level of opening that way, right?

so I dont get really get why we are saying it works.

OR....maybe there is a way one can one make it a defualt that the windows all have the no sidebar and no tool bar, like you could in Snow Leopard?

What do you think?

It does NOT work.

Oh my bad, just set the original folder to "Set default". Then they will all open the same way

Oh my bad, just set the original folder to "Set default". Then they will all open the same way

Well, I went through automator, and made every windows default (whatever you would like to call, no sidebar or tool bar). Then, I just set the original folder to "Set default", and now they all open (in a seperate window) in the eact same format as the original.

I'm really sorry you're having issues with my solution. Many others seem to have it working as I do :/

Make which ever folder you want (format wise) the default folder it will work

OMG !!! I'm not a freaking expert okay!

I posted what worked for me. I've been doing it since I upgraded, and it's worked just fine. My God. I'm sorry it doesn't work for everyone.

No wonder people don't post their thoughts or ideas anymore.

Well, I thought this "solution" wasn't even worth mentioning.

Hiding the toolbar always resulted in this borderless windows that would only open separate sub-folder-windows.

This is nothing new!

In fact, if you do it like that, you will now all use your Macs like my father (who could never stand the sidebar since it's intrpduction in 2003).

Hence you are discussing about a behavior that hasn't even been touched for 10 years now!

Also, some of you explain it the wrong way: In order to make your window borderless, you just have to hide it's toolbar, not the sidebar! The latter will automatically be gone then!

I don't want crippled windows, I want the real thing!

Like windows worked in OS 9, OS 10, OS 10.1, OS 10.2, and OS 10.3! (After that, Apple already began moving away from the traditional window-conventions of Mac OS)

Ok, great...thanks so  much...appreciate.

Hollanda wrote:

 

Well, I went through automator, and made every windows default (whatever you would like to call, no sidebar or tool bar). Then, I just set the original folder to "Set default", and now they all open (in a seperate window) in the eact same format as the original.

 

Hi..ok, here is the Automator window - see screen grab: Files and folders \ Set folder Views:...you just unchecked 'show toolbar' and uncheck sidebar width" too? and checked 'apply changes to sub-folders' -which reads in red that the sub folder thing could take a long time?

what do you think?

hi cmaus and also the tabs people,

well the one fellow said he needed to hold a soft drink, or eat chips w the one hand while he opened windows, so that is the only way, w one hand, to see all the windows at once.

personally i came about tabs, but ended up getting fascinated w the window opening situation. Found from another forum about tabs. you have will never get tabs except by cmd clicking a folder in that window. thats it. otherwise from a tabbed window, finder:view:'merge all windows' and all windows will fly from all desktops into that window as tabs. only seems to work once.